Welcome to 2026. SHANK. Website. Social Media Platform. Magazine. Calendar. Covering Golf from the Grassroots to the Giants. Local golf in St Andrews and around Scotland from club level to elite amateur. Rising stars on the Tartan Pro Tour. Legends of Golf at the Senior Open. The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Remote coverage of the world's greatest golf. Original features. Exclusive content. www.shank.golf 2026 is set to be the biggest ever year of golf coverage by SHANK

The golfing calendar is beginning to wind down for the year, and nights are drawing in, and the clocks will go back this weekend. There are 65 days until Christmas. Coming from November 16 to December 31, across Facebook, Instagram, X, Bluesky and Threads - SHANKmas. SHANKmas features an array of original content across the platform including website only features and content exclusively on social media. Original Features on www.shank.golf and across SHANK on Facebook, Instag

Ahead of the 2025 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship SHANK has joined All Square Golf, the Global Platform for Golfers. All Square uses the latest social media and app technologies to harness the passion for golf on a community level. Their ambition is to become the world's leading marketplace and social network for golfers, a platform through which the world of golf will become more open and connected. All Square Golf has more than 80,000 users across the world, with more tha

SHANK's expansion across social media continues by joining TikTok ahead of the 2025 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The account will go live on Friday 26 September, with the Major feature '40 years of Fashion - a celebration of four decades of dunhill golf in St Andrews' taking centre stage over the weekend, 27 to 28 September. Then we are in to Championship week and coverage of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship from Monday to Sunday. SHANK's TikTok will have behind th

The 2025 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship will be the 50th golf tournament SHANK has provided on-site coverage of, and the 28th of which we have been accredited for by an organising body. SHANK has provided our audience with remote coverage of hundreds of tournaments throughout the last decade, but there is nothing quite like being on site. In the past it was to gain access to interview players and create future content for the magazine, website and social media, and more re

Ahead of its biggest ever coverage of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, SHANK has expanded its platform, joining Threads. Threads is an American social media microblogging service operated by Meta Platforms. Threads requires an Instagram account to use the service and features integration between the two platforms. Upon its launch, Threads became the fastest-growing consumer software application in history, gaining over 100 million users in its first five days and surpas

After a 7-month boycott of the platform, tonight I can confirm that SHANK is returning to having an active account on X. On February 6 I chose to leave the SHANK account dormant in protest at the role the owner of X was playing in the US government, and interfering with the democratic processes of other governments around the world. During the last 7 months the owner of X has left his role at the US Government, and is now no longer able to directly influence policies which ca

MH Creative is the creative company established by Matt Hooper which is a combination of consumer-facing Photography, Modelling agency and media platforms dedicated to covering golf and sport from the grassroots to the elite. In 2013 Matt Hooper co-founded St Andrews Golf Magazine, and now 12 years later MH Creative offers a wide range of photography products and services, a start-up modelling agency and two websites and social media platforms dedicated to golf and sport, and

The Greater Edinburgh region has more than 40 golf courses from public access, and free to prestigious and premium GOLF CITY will be an exclusive feature on shankmedia.co.uk and charismabymh.com The region of Greater Edinburgh, including Musselburgh, North Berwick and the City of Edinburgh itself is home to dozens of golf courses and clubs, including some of the best public facilities in the world. The region is also of historic importance in golf, with the Leith Links, Honou

Funding required to launch unique creative hub in the heart of Cupar, home of Matt Hooper Photography and SHANK Media 22 February 2025 - SHANK Media, by Matt Hooper: Tonight I can announce that I have made an application for funding from the Creative Scotland National Lottery Open fund for Individuals to assist me with the launch of Matt's Place, a unique creative hub in the heart of Cupar, and the home of Matt Hooper Photography and SHANK Media. What is Matt's Place, and why

SHANK expands to six social media platforms, YouTube and shankmedia.co.uk 13 February 2025 - SHANK Media, by Matt Hooper: SHANK Media continues to expand, today joining Bluesky, increasing its presence across social media to 6 sites (Facebook, Instagram, X, Reddit, Tumblr, Bluesky), YouTube and of course, the home, www.shankmedia.co.uk Bluesky launched in 2021, and the platform has more than 31.4 million registered users worldwide. Bluesky began in 2019 as a research initiati

7 February 2025 - SHANK Media, by Matt Hooper: Click above to head to our Reddit profile Following the decision to pause the SHANK Media X account, SHANK has officially joined Reddit. Reddit is a social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members. Posts are o

SHANK YouTube channel rebranded as SHANK+ and to offer content across Golf, sports, news and events, along with This is St Andrews and Super Cupar playlists 29 January 2025, SHANK Media, by Matt Hooper: SHANK+ is set to be the home of video content for SHANK Media, after a rebrand and reimagining of the SHANK YouTube Channel. From 2013 to 2015 the 'Tuesday Tee-time' was a Live Google+ hangout streamed on YouTube, and it brought together myself and three golf aficionados from